If possible, please fix the new editor so that SP images are selected by default. The current mode discourages me from using the new editor because it adds an extra step.

Also, is it possible to fix it so that when we select a photo, the image caption does not appear as well? I find myself deleting a lot of text from captions because of this.

I have to say I like the text features of the new editor much better than those of the old one but find the photo part more tedious. Actually, I usually switch to the old editor when it comes time for the photo layout.

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I'll echo what Bob said. Bob is talking about when clicking the insert image button you have to swap from "New" to "Search SP Images". A few seconds? Until the clicks add up. And trust me, they do.

So here's my proposal, make a little checkbox that is dedicated to "title" and perhaps another one for "description" which inserts the title or description when checked after clicking the insert button (or before if it's easier).

Here's a mock up of it with a checkbox (minus the old styling)

Also one last important note. We miss these few nice things about the old editor:

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If these few additions were added, the new editor would be a lot nicer to work with when it comes to images.

Same here - I'm using the old editor because of formatting and I never use the inbuilt image upload option. Just doesn't work for me or the way I'm working with SP. Which goes like this:

- upload all the images through "create image", each on a new tab- copy preconfigured html-snippets for medium centered image, table of three centred small images, sliding pano into the text- exchange image numbers by copying from the browser image tabs into the code

Takes little more than 15 minutes, actually writing the captions while uploading takes most time.

I previously suggested this on the summitpost suggestion page but it didn't get any votes. I too find inserting existing images tedious with the new editor, but otherwise the editor is great. When I insert an image I have to do the following steps.

Especially when new features come out as a result of them. I personally believe it is exciting when things are easier to manage and time is saved for a lot people. That is part of the intentions of the new editor is it not?

While I always prefer to get credit for my work, a citation is not needed for the primary image considering that it links right back to the original poster. Top 14 images of a page don't get a citation, only the author(s) of the page get a citation. Curious folks will check the original. And besides, it's only a thumbnail that acts as the primary image. I've had folks use my images for the primary image of their pages which I felt zero need for my name to appear on that page.

I really like having the caption automatically entered when inserting photos into a page however I agree the "Search SP Images" should be defaulted. I also would like to see tables when inserted into a page defaulted to center rather than left.

Matt Lemke wrote:I really like having the caption automatically entered when inserting photos into a page

Problem is that commonly the caption in the photo poorly translates onto the page. For example, I commonly write "Taken on Mount Rainier on July 8, 2012" or something like that. Dates can appear on captions, but the viewer already knows that your trip called "hiking up Rainier" is on Rainier hence the first part of the caption is wasted words. As a result I would have to remove the text.

ZeeJay wrote:I previously suggested this on the summitpost suggestion page but it didn't get any votes. I too find inserting existing images tedious with the new editor, but otherwise the editor is great. When I insert an image I have to do the following steps.